National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

workshops led by regional experts, and educational guitar exhibit vendors. Previously featured guitar artists
have included Pepe Romero, The Texas Guitar Quartet, Ana Vidovic, Carlo Pezzimenti, Andy McKee, and Ryan
Schupe.
University of Utah
$10,000 Salt Lake City, UT
To support a residency by poet and novelist Sandra Cisneros, and associated outreach activities. Cisneros, who
writes about the Latino experience, will lecture or engage in conversation about her artistic process at a free
public event at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in downtown Salt Lake City. The author will also work in
conjunction with community partners to conduct outreach activity to underserved Salt Lake City students at
local libraries.
Utah Philharmonic Orchestra
$10,000 Herriman, UT
To support the Four String Festival, and associated outreach activities. Guest artists the Fry Street Quartet will
conduct sectionals, group ensemble, master classes, and a side-by-side concert with festival participants, as well
as perform with the Utah Philharmonic Orchestra. Outreach activities for underserved youth from small, lowincome
Utah communities will include a string clinic for school-age students.
VSA Florida (aka VSAFL)
$10,000 Tampa, FL
To support performances by singer-songwriter and guitarist James Durbin, with related activities. An artist with
Tourette's and Asperger's syndrome, Durbin will also conduct outreach activities in Tampa Bay and Tallahassee,
including mini performances. He will share his story while conducting question-and-answer sessions with
students with and without disabilities at public and private schools.
VSA arts of Texas (aka VSA Texas)
$10,000 Austin, TX
To support Body Shift, a dance festival for people with and without disabilities. The festival, which will take place
in Austin, Texas, will include workshops, facilitated conversations, and a free public performance by the Stopgap
Dance Company, a British inclusive dance company. The workshops will include a methods and integrated dance
class, as well as a teacher training workshop.
Verb Ballets
$10,000 Shaker Hts., OH
To support a memory and dance project at assisted living facilities in Cleveland, Ohio. Guest artists, dancer and
choreographer Diane McIntyre and African drummer Linda Thomas Jones, will collaborate with Verb Ballets
dancers to conduct movement workshops, gathering the personal life stories of older adults as material to
develop original dances. The dances will then be performed by Verb Ballets dancers and residents at each
facility, as well as in public performance at the Verb Ballet studio.
Vigorous Interventions in Ongoing Natural Settings, Inc. (aka VISIONS, Inc.)
$10,000 Dorchester, MA
To support a jazz concert series, and associated activities. The free jazz concerts at the Dudley Library in
Roxbury, Massachusetts, will feature the Makanda Project, with potential guest artists Oliver Lake, Ricky Ford,
Michael Gregory Jackson, and Eddie Allen. The concerts will have accompanying activities, such as music
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.